Webcast Tomorrow on SQL Server Disaster Recovery
Tomorrow, November 19, 2024, at 1 PM EST, I'm giving a webcast on SQL Server Disaster Recovery. It'll cover all the typical methods built-in to SQL Server, with a...
2024-11-18
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Databases – Infrastructure – Security
Master the Foundational Basics
It tells us to take the time to master the foundational basics of whatever technology we're working with. If we have mastered the basics in the past, it behooves...
2024-11-13
150 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #180: Avoid Perfect for Good Enough
I'm listening to Effortless by Greg McKeon (link to author's page) through Audible.com. He points out that often times, a quest for perfection means we don't move forward. We...
2024-11-22 (first published: 2024-11-12)
418 reads
Social Anxiety and Events Like the PASS Summit
If you are an introvert like me, events like the PASS Summit can call forth your social anxiety. I know this past week, I definitely felt it, even though...
2024-11-11
55 reads
PASS Summit – Thursday
Let’s start with the keynote. The biggest take away was how having to support multiple data platforms is growing and becoming the norm. This has been my experience and...
2024-11-08
11 reads
PASS Summit 2024 – Wednesday
A common theme in the PASS Summits I've attended is community and that's definitely true this year. It's one of the reasons I have loved coming when I can....
2024-11-07
22 reads
PASS Summit 2024 – A Very Different World
The last data centric conference I attended was the PASS Summit in 2019. A few months later, much of the world went on lockdown due to COVID. Since then,...
2024-11-06
16 reads
Heading to 2024 PASS Summit
I am able to head back to Seattle for the PASS Summit this year. I would love to meet up with friends and colleagues. I shouldn’t be too hard...
2024-10-29
6 reads
Tell me the positives of your solution
I still have a tendency to talk about all the cons of a proposed solution I don’t believe is the optimal one. There’s an old saying that “no one...
2024-11-08 (first published: 2024-10-29)
154 reads
Build Recovery into the Design
It's like disaster recovery (and business continuity) planning is the end-of-term research paper that the professor mentioned on the first day of class, but which most students don't start...
2024-10-23 (first published: 2024-10-10)
213 reads
Blogs
My 2024 in Data: Music
By Steve Jones
This is my last week of the year working (I guess I come back...
A New Word: Suente
By Steve Jones
suente– n. the state of being so familiar with someone that you can be...
Side Projects
Anyone (everyone?) who has ever tried to learn a programming language knows that to...
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Timeout Error while executing a TSQL statement in Sql server Express Edition
I am getting the below error when I execute a SQL command in SQL...
Timeout Error while executing a TSQL statement in Sql server Express Edition
I am getting the below error when I execute a SQL command in SQL...
Sql script replace and rearrange numbers
Hi everyone. I have this table and this information. (left side of the image)...